According to the Detroit Free Press, Chrysler will be adding 1,000 part-time workers to its plant in Toledo, Ohio. As part of the deal hammered out between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers, the part-timers won’t be getting full-time work or even full-time benefits. However, they will be paid $15.78 per hour—the same as entry-level full-time employees. Additionally, it is expected that the part-timers will | Read More »

Although unions are notoriously uncompetitive in the construction industry and union bosses negotiating wage freezes may make some sense in a bad economy, ten years’ worth of wage freezes seems extraordinarily long.

At least is seems long until one realizes that Michigan union bosses got what they want out of the contracts–the ability to collect union dues in a Right-to-Work state for another ten years and to use those dues to subsidize union contractors.

While giving to a charity is laudable and the Puget Sound members should be lauded for their voluntary giving to the Guide Dogs of America. Do they actually know their dues are also used to fund the salary of the charity’s president as well?

Just as many Hoosiers get used to the idea of not being forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment under Indiana’s new Right-to-Work law, according to a Circuit Court Judge, a suit filed by the United Steelworkers to strike down the new law can move forward. Until earlier this year, Indiana workers who went to work at a unionized company could be | Read More »

The Left claims that the GOP stole the Wisconsin election because they outspent the Dems by eleventy bazillion dollars. That’s how the union bosses, the Occupiers and the party leadership rationalize Tuesday’s failure. They don’t dare accept the notion that it was their ideas, their ideology and their tactics that were rejected at the polls. They chose the battlefield, the weapons and the timing. They | Read More »

The Left claims that the GOP stole the Wisconsin election because they outspent the Dems by eleventy bazillion dollars. That’s how the union bosses, the Occupiers and the party leadership rationalize Tuesday’s failure. They don’t dare accept the notion that it was their ideas, their ideology and their tactics that were rejected at the polls. They chose the battlefield, the weapons and the timing. They | Read More »

It has occurred to me that in amongst all the other issues being discussed regarding the pending legislation in Wisconsin, there is an issue that is perhaps such an obvious reason for the current "to the last man" union attitude that we have missed it entirely. We have seen much commentary on how this is about eliminating mandatory union dues, and yes, without any question, | Read More »

H/T Mount Virtus Non-union employees of some public school districts in Colorado are required to opt out of paying dues each year during a very short window of time. What happens when something urgent causes a worker to miss submitting their paperwork on time? That’s right, they pay their dues. They don’t care about your husband’s Parkinsons disease, or your son’s medical disabilities. They only | Read More »

Iowa, the home of union-ally Sen. Tom Harkin (D) and the first state to have a crack at presidential contenders, has become a battleground of sorts over whether public unions will gain the right to require public workers throughout the state to pay union “representation fees.” All public employee unions could charge nonmembers fees for services under an amendment introduced Monday to broaden an already | Read More »